We performed a comparison between CA Unified Communications Monitor and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"We use the solution to meet the needs of the customer."
"Good end-to-end monitoring"
"What I've found most valuable about the solution is that it's scalable."
"SolarWinds dashboard is very fast. Also, their interface is very good, it looks very user-friendly. The product allows me to see a summary of the network being monitored at a glance."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"You can monitor performance counters effortlessly."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution should have automatic baseline detection."
"All the features and functions of the solution can be improved."
"Having more technical and support resources available in Saudi Arabia would be helpful."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"It has covered everything, so no improvement is required at their end. The only thing is the price."
"Better offline license management. I’ve had to get in touch with customer support several times simply to remove an expired license from our NPM servers."
"An area for improvement would be the use of modular licenses, which are not practical for big clients."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds added some technical protocols like Modbus. The market needs a simple solution for monitoring a technical device."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"Sometimes there are issues when upgrading to a new version of the product."
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CA Unified Communications Monitor is ranked 77th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. CA Unified Communications Monitor is rated 6.6, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CA Unified Communications Monitor writes "Good end-to-end voice quality monitoring and offers valuable features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". CA Unified Communications Monitor is most compared with , whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor.
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